The son of murder victim Noddy Rice has been jailed for four months after attacking three police cars.

Kevin Burn, 25, admitted criminal damage and a public order offence after going on the rampage with a golf club.

He asked South Tyneside magistrates to lock him up so he can gather his thoughts following his father's death.

Burn was arrested outside South Shields Police Station, at Millbank, at 8.30pm on September 6, after causing £1,500 damage. Burn, of Norham Avenue South, South Shields, was sentenced to four months for criminal damage and two months for the public order offence, to run concurrently.

Mr Rice, 42, of Vincent Street, South Shields was shot dead in the town's Marsden Lea car park in May.